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• William George Byerley, Torrance, California, Verenigde Staten
• Deborah Peerboom, Heerlen († 2002)

• Edith Alice SMITH (59), Mexia, Texas-Mexia Cemetery
• Bernardus Jacobus Dijkdrenth (64), Katwijk
• Carl Raymond GEIGER (47), Peoria, Peoria Co, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Zacharias Marie Veringmeier (75), Nijmegen,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andries Hanzen (55), Muiderberg, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Theodora Broenland (85), Velp, Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Camilla Walleghem (71), Zarren
• Bernard Johannes Koch (91), South Australia, Australia
• Aaltiena Hoving (89)
• Christina Jacomina Glasbergen (84), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1983 » Heather DeLoach, American actress
• 1983 » Jurgen Van den Broeck, Belgian cyclist
• 1983 » Kevin Martin, American basketball player
• 1984 » Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
• 1985 » Dean Shiels, Irish footballer
• 1986 » Jorrit Bergsma, Dutch speed skater
• 1986 » Lauren Conrad, American fashion designer and author
• 1987 » Austin Jackson, American baseball player
• 1987 » Moises Henriques, Portuguese-Australian cricketer
• 1987 » Sebastian Boenisch, Polish footballer

• 1976 » George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1976 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (b. 1929)
• 1981 » Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American engineer and businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (b. 1892)
• 1981 » Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1908)
• 1986 » Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1989 » Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (b. 1918)
• 1992 » Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Ray Crawford, American race car driver, pilot, and businessman (b. 1915)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Michael
5. Peter
6. Thomas
7. Pieter
8. Johannes
9. David
10. Bart
11. Dennis
12. Sander
13. Robert
14. Kevin
15. Paul
16. Tim

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Laura
5. Jessica
6. Johanna
7. Anna
8. Stephanie
9. Charlotte
10. Sarah
11. Esther
12. Amanda
13. Judith
14. Nicole
15. Anne
16. Jennifer

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
• March 20 » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
• May 5 » Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
• May 13 » Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
• September 19 » A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
• October 3 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
• December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

The temperature on February 1, 1985 was between 6.8 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.